Overwhelmed? : Sanity Versus Standards

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How often do we push ourselves to the point of exhaustion, trying to do everything and keep everyone happy? For this week's Real Take, I'm dipping into the Ready to Be Real archive to revisit a conversation I had with the brilliant midlife coach Alana Kirk back in April 2024. In this short extract, Alana shares a powerful example of how setting boundaries and making small changes can make a huge difference, not just to our own wellbeing, but to family life too. She also shares some wonderfully practical advice about knowing when to choose our sanity over our standards! This conversation really resonated with listeners when it first came out, and revisiting it reminded me just how much…